Finance Manager - Head Office

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We have an exciting opportunity for a strategic Finance Manager who will work closely with the Finance, People and Transformation Directors, working in the heart of our Head Office.

You will work with the People and Finance leadership teams to support delivery of our Save to Invest plan, a key pillar of our group strategy, and crafting the strategy for their Transformation programmes.

• Providing big picture thinking through insight & analysis to assist in identifying and addressing key opportunities and risks to meeting or exceeding planned savings targets.
• Development of business cases for People, Finance and Transformation programmes including, but not limited to, workforce of the future and building a digital colleague experience.
• Using commercial and financial savviness to provide input into Transformation cases/investment reviews e.g. financial modelling, to ensure valuable initiatives are prioritised.
• Building strong working relationships and trust across the teams.
• Communicating accurate information and messaging effectively plus managing complex conversations to influence others in reaching positive outcomes.
• Ensuring robust control and compliance applied to Head Office activities. To contribute to the safeguarding of assets, management of risks and the reliability of reporting.
• Working closely with the FP&A team and Technology team to ensure integrity of financial reporting and forecasting.
• Finding new opportunities and driving actions that deliver these opportunities through insightful analysis.
• Opportunity to lead ad-hoc projects across Procurement and Channels Finance.

• Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Excellent at building relationships with colleagues at various levels, utilising strong communication skills
• Experience in effectively managing expectations and prioritisation, as well as willingness to challenge senior colleagues who have a lot of experience in their field
• Great teammate – the People Transformation programmes impact multiple cost lines and therefore collaboration is key
• Ability to positively challenge senior colleagues

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We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.